BALLSTON SPA — A man accused of killing his mother and concealing her body under the family's shed was indicted Wednesday on second-degree murder and an additional felony charge, prosecutors said.

A Saratoga County grand jury handed up a two-count indictment against Joshua McWain, 27, charging him with killing his mother, Carol Stanford, and tampering with physical evidence related to the alleged homicide, District Attorney James A. Murphy III said.

McWain is being held in county jail without bail and will be arraigned before County Judge Jerry Scarano within the next few days, Murphy said. Police said the Greenfield man repeatedly struck his mother in the back of the head with a blunt instrument after a domestic dispute. The mother and son had lived together in the Daniels Corner Mobile Home Park on Daniels Road.

"We have what we believe to be the murder weapon," Murphy said in an interview on Wednesday. He would not specify what kind of weapon McWain allegedly used in the Oct. 27 attack, nor would he specify a motive in the case.

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Sheriff James Bowen has said McWain confessed to the killing after police made a welfare check on Stanford at her home and ultimately found her body beneath the floor of a shed, which was accessible by a trapdoor. Stanford's neighbors had reported the woman missing.

Stanford died of injuries to the face and forehead, according to the county coroner.

In 2011, authorities charged McWain with fourth-degree grand larceny in the theft of nearly $5,000 from a home in Greenfield. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of petit larceny, a misdemeanor, and received three years' probation. Conditions of McWain's probation had barred him from leaving the county without the court's permission and prohibited him from possessing firearms or knives, according to court documents.